Suspenders



(No Model.)

B. H. LIEBERTHAL.

SUSPBNDERS.

No. 484,882. Patented 880.8, 1891.

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ELIAS ll. LIEBERTIIAL, OF BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.

SUSPENDERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 464,882, dated December 8, 1891.

Application filed July 20, 1891. Serial No. 400,080. (No model.)

T0 to whom it may concern:-

Be it known that I, ELIAS H. LIEBERTHAL, of Bay City, in the county of Bay and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Suspenders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates more particularly to mens suspenders, and more especially to the means provided for connecting and adjusting up or down the bifurcated end straps on the main web of the suspender.

The invention has for its prime object the dispensing with all buckles or projecting metal parts on either or both sides of the suspender liable to catch on the shirt or vest where the adjustable bifurcated end pieces connect with the main web.

The leading feature of the invention consists in a slotted metal plate or clamp conprotruding character of the slotted plate or clamp which connects said end pieces and main web is preserved, substantially as hereinafter more fully described, and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.-

Figure 1 represents a face view of the front bifurcated end piece or portion of the onehalf of a pair of suspenders with my invention applied; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section of the same with a portion of the main web in engagement; Fig. 3, a face view of the junction-piece of the bifurcated end pieces or straps, with a modified construction or attachment of the slotted toothed clamping plate applied 5 and Fig. -15, a longitudinal section of the same.

Referring in the first instance to Figs. 1

and 2 of the drawings, A indicates the main web of the suspender in part, and B B the bifurcated end straps or braids, which are secured direct without ring attachment-as by stitching, for instance-to the leather junction-piece 0, used to hold them together. The suspender carries no buckle for adjustment of the bifurcated ends up or down the web A to lengthen or shorten the suspender, but the junction-piece O is made of two thicknesses of leather or material, with a clamping metal plateD of any desired shape embedded within it between its two thicknesses and secured by metal eyelets b or otherwise. Said clamp or plate,- which thus virtually becomes a fined integral part of the leather or junction piece 0, or, in other words, is substantially flush with it, is constructed with a slot 0 through yi g across the path, as it were, of the Web A, and the upper marginal wall of said slot is provided with a series (two or more) of downWardly-protruding small slightly-bent teeth s, adapted to penetrate the web or catch onto it without projecting through the web. The slot 0 faces a corresponding slot made 111 the junction-piece G and admits the web through it from back to front, so that the j ion-piece C, with its attached bifurcated ends B B, is free to be slid up or down the web to lengthen or shorten the suspender, and by an easy manipulation of it and pull or strain put upon the end pieces B B the junction-piece is secured by the teeth 3 catching in the web to its adjusted position thereon, and by opposite similar slight manipulation may as readily and quickly be detached from engagement by the teeth when required to make a fresh sliding adjustment. Thus a very simple and cheap fastening not liable to wear, break, or get out of order for adj ustably connecting the end pieces with the web is provided, and the same does not objectionably protrude on either side of the Web to catch into, injure, or tear the shirt or vest of the wearer.

In Figs. 3 and 4; the slotted and toothed metal plate or clamp is constructed simply in the form of a metal lining D to the marginal walls of the slot in the leather or junction piece 0, and is flanged or bent all around to grip, and it may be embedded in said piece 0 on opposite sides thereof, thus virtuallybeing flush with the piece 0 and forming a nontering with the slotin saidjunc tion-pieceflhe protruding fastening, as in the other figures upper'wall of the slot in the plate being pro- 0f the drawings previously described. vided with downward-projecting teeth, and

Having thus described myinventi0n,what I the suspender-ends B B, secured between the I 5 5 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters lower ends of said layers, substantially as set Patent, is-- I forth.

The flexible junction-piece C formed of J superposed layers of leather or suitable flexi- ELIAS LIEBERTHAI' ble fabric and having a transverse slot there- Witnesses:

10 through, the metal plate D, secured between W. FRENCH MORGAN,

. said layers and having a transverse slot regis- O. H. NUMAN. 

